- Learn how using key principles throughout your cloud architecture can help you design and build a solid architectural foundation that you can continuously improve.
By the end of this module, you're able to:
- Describe the pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Identify key principles for creating a solid architectural foundation
- Apply reliability guidance in your architecture to improve your workload's availability and resilience.
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the five principles of the Reliability pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
- Apply your business's reliability requirements to your workload design.
- Design your system to handle faults smoothly and keep working even when things go wrong.
- Make sure that your workload can recover from malfunctions, whether it's a small glitch or major disaster.
- Include monitoring and testing capabilities in your workload's design and daily operations.
- Keep your workload simple to minimize risks.
- Discover the tools that Azure provides to help you design a secure environment throughout your infrastructure, data, network, and applications.
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the five principles of the Security pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
- Create a security readiness plan that matches your business priorities.
- Handle confidentiality requirements properly.
- Strengthen your workload's integrity against security risks.
- Ensure that your workload stays available during security incidents.
- Maintain and improve your workload's security posture continuously.
- Apply cost optimization guidance in your architecture to sustain and improve your return on investment (ROI).
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the five principles of the Cost Optimization pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
- Build a team mindset that keeps an eye on budgets, spending, and tracking costs.
- Focus your spending on what really matters to get the best value.
- Make the most of your tools, systems, and processes.
- Boost efficiency without having to start from scratch or cut corners.
- Keep adjusting your investments as your needs grow or change.
- Learn how to design an Azure architecture that uses modern practices and gives you full visibility into what's happening in your environment.
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the six principles of the Operational Excellence pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
Use DevOps practices to build a strong team culture that encourages collaboration, accountability, and ownership.
Speed up development by using standard tools and processes that help your team work more efficiently.
Build a robust observability platform to improve your operations practices.
Build a secure, reliable, and high-performing workload supply chain that builds trust in your deployments.
Automate routine tasks to reduce manual work and boost security, reliability, and performance.
Follow consistent standards for rolling out changes, and treat every deployment with care.
- Learn how to optimize your workload to meet performance requirements while balancing costs, reliability, and security.
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the four principles of the Performance Efficiency pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
- Set realistic performance goals for your workload, based on what the business stakeholders and workload owners agree on.
- Pick a design that suits your performance needs.
- Run your workload in a way that continuously tracks its performance efficiency.
- Keep making your workload better by finding ways to optimize its performance efficiency.
